Re: Sapir-WhorFreakiness

In a message dated 8/21/2004 8:12:39 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
treborjung@FREE.FR writes:

>Another possibility is that the Pirahã are colour-blind. That makes alot
>more sense, if peoples other than the Pirahã living in the Amazon region
>have colour terms.
Everett notes, "I have asked them [the Piraha] about different colors on many
occasions and have not noticed any inability descriptive phrases for new
colors.  Therefore, I expect that the Pirahas would show good ability to
distinguish colors under controlled circumstances, unlike their ability with numbers."

The issue is their lack of morphologically simple color terms.  They do not
lack the ability to perceive & describe colors.

Can you read Everett's pdf file, or is it incompatible with your software?

Doug